Showing posts with label ERC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ERC. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Insights into the Power/Energy Outlook in the Philippines - from the Energy Forum by Opeman

These are some of the insights I gathered from the "Empowering Juan" Forum last Monday March 24, 2014 courtesy of MM Opeman group under Prof Arguelles and from the resource persons of ERC, DOE and PCCI (who formerly ran a 400 mW) power barge:

1.  The EPIRA unbundled the power into:   Gencos, Transmission and Grid, DU (Distribution Units - Retailers like Meralco and cooperative and customers.  In other words, Napocor was  privatized. The NG is still paying the subsidized power under Napocor (when they were said to be losing at the rate of P1m/minute)  So when John Galicia asked question on govt buying into Meralco....

Congratulatilons to the Opeman MM class under Prof Gus Arguelles who did the 17th Forum on Energy

 Angono, Rizal, Philippines | March 26, 2014

                                   The Opeman Cluster Professors

Congratulations to the MM Opeman Class under Prof Gus Arguelles and the Opeman cluster under Prof Ralph Ante.  It was  well attended forum and the speakers were all distinguished:  Sec Jericho Petilla of DOE, his Executive Director Patrick Aquino, a senior Officer of ERC, an ADB expatriate and senior officers from Meralco.   I understand from Gus is that the forum is a true test of project management:   organization, process, timeline, resources, marketing,  My class in entrep conducted several fora on guest entrepreneurs who included Francis Kong and Vicky Belo.  We did the social entrep forum on the l50 year of Ateneo.